The Valley Of Baca Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBBBB BDBDEE BBBBFF BGBBFF BBBBHI BFBFJJ| Psalm LXXXIV | A |
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| A brackish lake is there with bitter pools | B |
| Anigh its margin brushed by heavy trees | C |
| A piping wind the narrow valley cools | B |
| Fretting the willows and the cypresses | B |
| Gray skies above and in the gloomy space | B |
| An awful presence hath its dwelling place | B |
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| I saw a youth pass down that vale of tears | B |
| His head was circled with a crown of thorn | D |
| His form was bowed as by the weight of years | B |
| His wayworn feet by stones were cut and torn | D |
| His eyes were such as have beheld the sword | E |
| Of terror of the angel of the Lord | E |
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| He passed and clouds and shadows and thick haze | B |
| Fell and encompassed him I might not see | B |
| What hand upheld him in those dismal ways | B |
| Wherethrough he staggered with his misery | B |
| The creeping mists that trooped and spread around | F |
| The smitten head and writhing form enwound | F |
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| Then slow and gradual but sure they rose | B |
| Those clinging vapors blotting out the sky | G |
| The youth had fallen not his viewless foes | B |
| Discomfited had left the victory | B |
| Unto the heart that fainted not nor failed | F |
| But from the hill tops its salvation hailed | F |
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| I looked at him in dread lest I should see | B |
| The anguish of the struggle in his eyes | B |
| And lo great peace was there Triumphantly | B |
| The sunshine crowned him from the sacred skies | B |
| From strength to strength he goes he leaves beneath | H |
| The valley of the shadow and of death | I |
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| Thrice blest who passing through that vale of Tears | B |
| Makes it a well and draws life nourishment | F |
| From those death bitter drops No grief no fears | B |
| Assail him further he may scorn the event | F |
| For naught hath power to swerve the steadfast soul | J |
| Within that valley broken and made whole | J |
Emma Lazarus
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